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Continental Hotel, Philadelphia, J.E. Kingsley & Co., proprietors [envelope] [graphic].
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Creator
Bufford, John Henry, 1810-1870.
Contributor
McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
McArthur, John, 1823-1890, architect.
Title
Continental Hotel, Philadelphia, J.E. Kingsley & Co., proprietors [envelope] [graphic].
Publisher
Boston: J.H. Bufford 313 Washington St
Publisher
MA. Boston. 1864
Date
[ca. 1864]
Physical Description
1 print: transfer lithograph; 8 x 12 cm.(3 x 4.75 in.)
Notes
View showing the luxury hotel completed in 1860 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr. at the corner of Ninth and Chestnut streets. Also shows street and pedestrian traffic including horse-drawn carriages, men on horseback, and a strolling family. The hotel was demolished in 1924.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Variant of (6)1322.F.69c.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 158
Subject
Continental Hotel (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Hotels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carriages & coaches -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 800 block.
Genre
Transfer lithographs -- 1860-1870.
Envelopes -- 1860-1870.
Associated name
McArthur, John, 1823-1890, architect.
Provenance
McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| BW - Hotels [(8)1322.F.49h]
Accession number
(8)1322.F.49h
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